Here at The Flower Stork we are committed to reducing our impact on the environment. We are environmentally and ethically minded when sourcing our baby clothing, gift items and packaging. We feel that it is essential that we do our bit to reduce our carbon foot-print so that we can help our customers and the gift recipient to also reduce theirs. In fact some of us here at The Flower Stork are a little bit obsessed with recycling!

Here are some of the initiatives we have undertaken to reduce our carbon footprint and ensure our range is environmentally and ethically sound:

All of our baby clothes are manufactured in the UK to the highest European safety standards. Because they are made right here in the UK for us we can be assured that safety standards are adhered to not just for the clothing but also for the labeling and we can be confident they are made from natural materials with no child labour involved. Local manufacturing also provides local jobs.

All of our baby toys have passed the highest European safety tests and are suitable from birth, this means the eyes on our teddy bears are sewn on and there are no small parts that would pose a choking hazard.

Our contemporary gift packaging is manufactured within the UK without any dangerous emissions and all production waste is recycled. Our gift box packaging is designed to be re-used, and at the end of its useful life can be recycled, incinerated or land filled without any harm to the environment.

All postal packaging is recyclable packaging is made by a local company – they even deliver it to us on the back of a forklift from up the road – which means we have to wait for a fine day (not always the case in these welsh valleys) but they come directly to us without the need for additional road miles.

We recycling all our cardboard, paper and packaging waste. Any usable items are donated to local schools and children’s groups for them to make lovely things with.

We use a computerised system to reduce our paper usage.

We source where possible, all of our raw materials and packaging from the UK.